Results 17,561-17,580 of 34,778 for speaker:Seán Fleming
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We will ask for that. Perhaps Mr. Joseph Nugent or somebody could phone to get the date on which An Garda Síochána made the decision to reopen Stepaside. We would like that done now. Perhaps Mr. Nugent could step outside now to make that phone call, because that date is critical. I now call Deputy MacSharry.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The five.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The witness says there were four in Dublin and they are still in State possession.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Has the acting Garda Commissioner ascertained when the Garda decided to reopen Stepaside Garda station?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: It was announced by a member of the Government on Tuesday, 13 June. The report was given to the Government on 9 June------
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: ------recommending that Stepaside Garda station alone be reopened. This is the confusion. There were 16 Garda stations mentioned but there was one for-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: In the report that was submitted.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: In other words, the report was provided to the Government with more than one Garda station identified as being suitable for early reopening.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: It was a Government decision to pick one station, not a decision of the witness.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Tuesday, 13 June was the date placards announcing the reopening appeared outside Leinster House before the Cabinet meeting. That is not Mr. Ó Cualáin's affair and the committee accepts that is politics. To get the sequence right-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: We, as politicians, will deal with that on a political level. Did the report produced by the Garda Síochána that went to the Department of Justice and Equality on 9 June and then to the Government recommend more than one early reopening?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: If the then Commissioner had the authority and it was her reserved function, why did she not proceed with reopening the stations that were so recommended? Has the process to reopen any other station commenced?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: To reopening.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: No other stations have commenced the process of. The witness said discussions with the OPW for arrangements to reopen Stepaside Garda station have commenced.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: It is the Commissioner's decision to reopen Stepaside Garda station.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: I asked on what date the Commissioner made that decision. A report was sent to the Department of Justice and Equality on 9 June. A Minister made an announcement on 13 June. On what date did the Commissioner decide to reopen that station?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: That Stepaside Garda station be reopened.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: The report from the Garda Síochána to the Government recommended that Stepaside Garda station be reopened.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: Fine.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Seán Fleming: There will only be time for quick clarifications. The Department has not come in yet. That sequence needed to be clarified.